What’s fat activism?
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posted on 2014-01-24, 15:54 authored by Charlotte Rachel Mary CooperIn 21st century Western culture, obesity is such a maligned state of being that the
notion of fat activism is unthinkable to most people. "Fat" and "activist" are not words
that sit together well in the popular imagination. The idea of activism suggests a
dynamic engagement with public life that could not be further from couch potato
stereotypes associated with fat people, or popular paradigms which typify "the
obese" as innately unwholesome, passive recipients of pity and intervention.
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University of Limerick Department of Sociology Working Paper Series;WP2008-02Publisher
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